Week 63 ~ Shellacasauras

Hey Everyone!

I LOVE BROWNSVILLE!!!

I never thought I would love an area as much as I loved Laredo but we are off to a good start here. I am in a Spanish area again! Brownsville is beautiful. There are these little lakes everywhere called Rasacas and it's covered in palm trees. It is literally the best!

Sister Taylor is so sweet! She served in Bolivia for the first part of her mission, but actually was sent to this mission way back before COVID because of political riots in Bolivia. She is so cute and we get along really well and have lots of dance parties. Our apartment is also so boujee and literally the biggest apartment in the mission probably, we feel very blessed. And we have carpet!!

Saying goodbye to my homies in Laredo was hard, especially my cute little greenie - but I know they are still doing great out there. I just got an email from Sister Lund today that George's baptism will be this saturday!! YAY!! I will get to hopefully video call in :.)

This week we had MLC - it was awesome!! I learned so much about what we can do to better help the sisters in our zone and how to improve missionary abilities. It's also super fun to see all my friends from the mission and get together again.

Our main investigators right now are Luis and Juan. Juan has the coolest back story EVER. They contacted him with a picture of Jesus from the Book of Mormon and he said "I've seen this picture before in a dream." WHAT!! So escogido. He is a little hesitant about baptism but has already had all the lessons haha. We are working on helping him feel more prepared. He is too down for the gospel though.

Luis is our other little buddy. He is so awesome. We haven't been able to visit him all week because he locked himself in his RV and read the Book of Mormon and did some repenting hahahah. But he came to church for the first time on Sunday and it was so awesome!! this fire member helped us give a church tour and at the end Luis said he didn't even want to leave because of how good he felt :')

The members in this ward are so cool. I had my first dinner in person with members since February and it was so fun!!! I had to hide my runny nose and red face because of the spicy food, but we had a good time and lots of laughs. Eating with members is the best.

Today we got together as a zone and played pickleball and barbecued! I fried up some burgers (big shoutout to my old comp Sis Anderson for teaching me how back in Argy) and we had a good time!

GUYS I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! I can't even say it enough. This week has just been so good and we have seen so many miracles.

Spiritual experiences:

Our zone had two baptisms this weekend and we were able to go to the first one so that I could help out with piano. We brought our investigator Juan and the spirit was just so sweet there and he said he loved it! When Julieta got out of the water she yelled "I'm a new person!!!" hahah it was so cute!

Funny experiences:

the title of this email comes from hno perez in the english ward. Apparently he gives all the sister missionaries a "lady dinosaur" name when they first get here and Shellacasauras is mine hahah.

I hope you all have a great week! I'm sorry if I don't get to some of your emails, it has been a crazy pday and last two weeks. I will try my best to respond to all of them next week!

Love,

Sister Spackman